Karen McVeigh 17 April 2012 At least 20 women were brought back to a hotel in Colombia by secret service agents and military personnel who are now under investigation into allegations of misconduct involving prostitutes, according to a US senator.

Speaking after she was briefed by the director of the secret service, Susan Collins, the top Republican on the Senate homeland security committee, said on Tuesday: "There are 11 agents involved. Twenty or 21 women foreign nationals were brought to the hotel, but allegedly marines were involved with the rest."

A spokesman for the secret service told the Guardian that it had revoked the top security clearances of the 11 employees, who have been placed on administrative leave and can no longer access official facilities. A number of military personnel, believed to be as many as 10, were also allegedly involved in misconduct at the hotel in Cartagena where President Barack Obama was due to stay ahead of a summit.

A US official told Reuters on Monday that more than 10 military service members may have been involved.

The incident, which overshadowed Obama's visit to the summit in Colombia, has triggered scrutiny of a culture where, according to the Washington Post, married secret service agents joke during aircraft take-off that their motto is "wheels up, rings off". It has also prompted questions about discipline and leadership in the service.

The summit was to also focus on sexual exploitation and sexual slavery. Obama again proved do as I say not as my Secret Service does. He was only mad as he didn’t get to play with the boys this trip. But Hillary did get to play with the girls. Now why did she not get admonsished by the President or the press?

As a former Marine who has hit more than a few liberty ports ... this kind of stuff has been ongoing for a long time ... don’t give me this SS agents are a breed apart. They’ve been pulling this type of BS off for a long time. This time they were caught with their hand in the cookie jar ...

Leaving the current resident of the White House out of the equation, I wouldn’t trust any man who would betray his vows to his wife. Certainly not to lay down his life to protect the president. He simply is not a man of his word. One can try to justify it all he wants, but the fact remains that a man who would step out on his wife is a man who cannot be trusted with anything of value.

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posted on 04/17/2012 7:36:50 PM PDT
by StonyMan451
(As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.)

Can't speak for all men, but the SS HAS to be a cut above. The HAVE to know what they do is literally the most important job in the world, protecting the President. If they are "party dudes", they have no business being SS.

God forbid any POTUS was assassinated because of some lame-ass security breech.

Don't these guys get briefed about things like this? It has to come up in training.

“One can try to justify it all he wants, but the fact remains that a man who would step out on his wife is a man who cannot be trusted with anything of value.”

You didn't get the memo? You can't talk this way in 2012; moral relativism and all that. What they do with their personal life is none of anyone’s business and doesn't impact their professional life anyway, oral sex is not really sex, it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is...

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posted on 04/17/2012 7:57:41 PM PDT
by MichaelCorleone
(Stop feeding the beast; spend money only with those who support traditional American values.)

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall behind", But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind, There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind, O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

Really? ANd which sources are those.... current secret service agents???

I have carried a security clearance for most of my career. I am not part of the secret service. The rules are VERY CLEAR when I travel (particularly over seas) I MUST report every contact that I have. I am debriefed thoroughly when I return.

These yahoos are either the dumbest drunks around or something else is going on that is very very scary

And still the Drive-By Media has never looked into Barry's Wild Limo Ride in Gurnee in 1999. Since Barry is now the leader of the dysfunctional and party-hardy GSA and incompetent party-hardy USSS, he was simply ahead of his time when he was a lowly Ill-Annoy legislator.

You may know Marines. You may have the same slimy morals as the alley cats that roam the garbage filled streets of any give port. But you do NOT know ‘the breed’. In fact you would never qualify to be part of the breed.

I still find this hard to believe, unless they lowered their hiring standards drastically.

Could be that Obama-influenced cronyism in hiring eroded the character and professionalism of the SS, assuming this conduct was not common practice under other administrations as some Freepers seem to imply.

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posted on 04/17/2012 8:25:50 PM PDT
by luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)

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